>>51173415it's a really easy made for babies (like all of the mainline games) so it's not going to matter much what you do unless you're playing some sort of self-imposed challenge.
>any "new" Pokemon worth usinggen 2 has a lot of standouts in competitive play, less so for PvE where all you do is sweep a bunch of underleveled retards. niche roles become less important and it all comes down to type coverage and being able to get overleveled.
Totodile and Cyndaquil are competent, Espeon sweeps with Psychic, Crobat and Ampharos are competent and have great availability, Ursaring is great but has shit availability unless you grab the Teddiursa from Dark Cave, Heracross is great but if your trainer ID ends in 7 you can't get him until Kanto or something (lol), Scyther isn't new but you can grab him much more easily and he has a neat PvE set in Swords Dance+Agility+Wing Attack/ Slash / Fury Cutter.
Catch a Jynx for Lance.
The strongest Pokemon in the game is
a random Spearow you get loaned by a gate guard